"#love every time we made dave a question and he went all fanficcy #this one and the post-survival one"
hello i have a BURNING need to know..... which post-survival question did he answer?
Hi! Sorry for the month-long delay in answering this! I don’t usually get asks on this account so I kept forgetting and say I’d answer as soon as I got to check Dave’s Q&As again, which I kept not being able to check. Anywho, the question I was referring to here was made by Liv on the Q&A session that took place on the 25th of June. You can find the complete recording and transcripts here (along with other fantastic fan-curated resources if you’re new to the fandom.)
Q: If the expedition had been rescued around, say, episode 8/9, and made it home, how do you think the various relationships that developed on screen would have fared back in ““civilization””? Would the intimacies some of these men formed between them persist? I’m also curious to know if you think any of them would resign from the Navy, be it for whatever reason: ethical, practical, physical, to explore other parts of themselves, etc.
I’m gonna try to be as brief as possible because Dave gave a very long response (find the non-abridged version in the link provided above), but this was the meat of it:
Crozier and Blanky would talk endlessly about quitting the Navy but only Crozier would. This doesn’t mean that Blanky would do this comfortably, as he’d already have survived two naval expeditions that turned out badly, so maybe he’d join a whaling ship, even if that would also have gotten under his skin.
He doesn’t think any of the surviving Lieutenants would have come back anywhere close to the poles, but he does think that most of them would have succumbed to the calling of fame and glory, i.e. wanting to return to the sea now that they had been named Commanders or Captains of their own vessels.
He’s not sure if Fitzjames would have been brave enough to stay aside of the Navy, even if during those three months he learnt a lot more about himself that what keeping the same persona for thirty years had brought him. He thinks Fitzjames would have written a “hell of a memoir” as well as a “hell of a military career, and that he would have stayed friends with Crozier, even if some of the things that happened in the Arctic would never have been mentioned again.
Goodsir would return to visit Silna “as often as possible.” Not for romantic reasons, but because there’d have been “a friendship there”. (also, taking into account he is making up all these scenarios after 8 or 9 the tuunbaq would have lived.)
“I think Bridgens and Peglar [smiles] would have worked like dogs to be able to afford some goddamn privacy where they could be together for the rest of their lives. [laughs]”
Pilkington and Des Voeux would have stayed friends.
“Little and Hodgson would be in one another’s lives.” They’d help each other patch themselves up after what happened because they’d both be in denial about everything that went down, helping create “a more palatable story about themselves”.
Sophia would feel like she’d have to choose between Lady Jane and Crozier and would chose the former, especially after the loss of her uncle.
Jopson would have stayed close to Crozier, they’d stay best friends for the rest of their lives.
Golding would commit suicide at some point, he was not equipped to deal with everything that happened and much less to go on living carrying it with him.
David Young’s ring would have been delivered to his sister. (with one of the crystal diamonds having fallen off during the journey.)
Mr Diggle would have been fine and stayed friend with some of the AB’s and midshipmen, but not with anyone else further up the hierarchy.
Collins would have lived a very quiet life, as most of what troubled him was PTSD.
Hartnell would have had a family and lived a quiet life. He’d have stayed close to Manson and from time to time he might have met with Crozier.
Hickey would have ended up in prison if he managed not to ger executed. If Tozer and him had ended up in the same prison they would have avoided each other for years, until they realized they were the one’s more suited for each other’s rest and protection. It’s tricky for Dave to say if they’d have become lovers because he is unsure about Tozer, but it’s prison so HE’LL LET US DECIDE. [ten seconds later he changed his mind] Tozer would have turned to Hickey for that kind of comfort and ended up murdering him, while Hickey convinced himself that he was the one letting himself be murdered. (This is already a very long ask, if you want more details on Hickey’s Vermont sex-cult, ping me and I’ll expand on it, because it was an answer from a different day and I don’t currently have it at hand.)
Gibson wouldn’t have wanted nothing to do with anyone. He might have found some new expedition or a house where he could work in as a domestic servant, but he wouldn’t have told anyone.
"Need to go listen to some Ethel Cain for my latest project" oh, so we're COOKING cooking 👀
hee hee hee :3
we ARE cooking!!! I haven't been invested in a project like this in a VERY LONG time!!
I don't wanna disclose much of it not to lose steam when I'm barely 2k words in, but I recently started watching The Last Kingdom due to Mark Rowley being in it (he plays Jock M in SASRH and he is my white boy of the summer) and kinda, just, LIKED IT A LOT???
Cue in S3 being an absolute banger of a season of TV and getting me thinking about how Sihtric's arc as a character very much could mimic the one of a classical Gothic heroine and BAM!! You've got a semi-canon compliant medieval gothic fic in the making.
I've also been listening to the latest Ethel Cain song which has done TERRIBLE THINGS for my inspiration along with talking plenty about Sihtric as a character with @rosemaryandbrine which have definitely made all of this worse 😇😇
Anyways, idk when/if I will finish this, but for the moment it has kept me writing and obsessing over an idea like nothing else has managed to in the past six months, so I'm going to take it as a huge win.
Hello, long time no see!! I am still alive and kicking and very sorry that I haven't been able to post much, still!!!
I managed to finish a 20k word fic earlier this week, and that's worth celebrating!! It is the Red Riding fic a series I'd still urge any Terror fan of crime fiction to check out I've been threatening everyone with since summer and hopefully it'll be out early January. I'll include an excerpt I shared on Twt and Bsky under the cut!
On Terror writing related news!! Finishing that Red Riding fic has helped me pick steam back up and I've been working on a little Armitozer kinkmeme fill from ages ago to ease back into writing these dorks while also starting to write the first scenes of the last chapter of damn your wife. I don't have an ETA for those two, but I wanted everyone to know that they're very much still in progress. You can also find a little excerpt for hammock fic under the cut 🧡🧡
This year has been very harsh to me on every possible front. My job left me extremely burnt out and I wasn't able to make any significant progress on my PhD or personal writing, which after last year felt very frustrating. I am deeply thankful for anyone who read anything of mine this year, and hopefully, along with getting back into writing, I'll also use these holidays to catch up on answering all those comments that have been sitting on my AO3 inbox for a hot bit.
Once again, thank you so much for your patience and for loving what I do. You can find your Christmas presents under the cut and I hope that your holidays were merry regardless of if you celebrated anything or not!! See y'all soon🧡
This is an excerpt from my post-canon Red Riding fic. A small exploration that got too long of BJ Anderson's life after 1983's ending.
This is an excert from what I've been tentatively calling hammock fic, a canon divergent The Terror one-shot in which the sailors are asked to share their sleeping quarters and hammocks (with sexy results)
...or WIPs, how I'm doing and other things I keep neglecting to share on Tumblr.com
Once again Midna here with the compulsory beginning of the year post in which I try to cram everything I haven't been talking about around here on a single post for those who do not follow me on Twitter or the other Blue site:
Writing is going well, I am still stuck in the Arctic as you may have seen from my latest fics and all of my current WIPs are Terror related. I have finally been able to fall on a more constant rythm with my PHD along this course and recovered some of my writing motivation and speed that had been a bit gone since the passing of my cat last summer.
Currently I am editing the next chapter of damn your wife and my February planning includes trying to finish a secret project and the following installment of what makes a (good) man if I don't bounce back into trying the last chapter of damn your wife, that is.
Idk if I will be able to write anything for it but cowboy show fest has been plaguing my dreams and I'd encourage anyone who is into the Terror to check it out, because it's looking like it'll be an incredibly inspiring event
Anyways, I think that's all of it? My main focus for this year, creatively speaking, is to try and finish all the big projects I started last year and to start working on smaller ideas with different characters and fucking around a little more with style, but we shall see how that goes. On the meantime, I hope everyone around here has been doing alright, and as always, I'll try to be around more, even if it's just to clog your dashes with posts that inspire me!🧡
Finishing my second Master's thesis of this year this week and honest to God I'm taking my entire summer to recover from whatever these past six months have been
I'm currently going through that limbo where I know it's probably gonna be fine while at the same time I try to fight against the little voice in the back of my head that tells me I'm gonna somehow fuck up
ANYWHO, from tomorrow 10am onwards I'll be somewhat free and spending the upcoming week in a comatose state until my body decides to recover
